I'm a big fan of TV.

Bernie Mac is happy.

Bernie Mac is talented!

I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.

I’m an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’

Every time you see a black romance, it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.